Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law
know that mitigating evidence can include anything they believe should weigh in favor of a life sentence. Both aggravating evide ...
mock jurors with lower comprehension levels find mitigating evidence to be more persuasive in the case of a White defendant than ...
to or given permission to speak. There is a rigorous daily schedule of activities. Strict rules govern all facets of the juvenil ...
who oversee the programs. Money available for pro- gramming is also an important factor in determining the type of activities in ...
calculated. The effect size indicates whether recidi- vism was lower for the boot camp participants or the comparison group and ...
of juveniles engage in different levels of criminal behavior. Specifically, the arrest rate for female juve- niles has increased ...
greater for arson (53%) and vandalism (41%). However, Black and White juveniles were both responsible for the same proportions ( ...
aggression, should be considered at risk of becoming juvenile offenders because they frequently exhibited similar behaviors earl ...
understanding of juvenile delinquency. Additional environmental factors associated with juvenile offend- ing include poverty, te ...
follow one of two possible patterns of offending. The majority exhibit adolescence-limitedoffending, which begins during adolesc ...
abnormalities are more prevalent among chronic crim- inal offenders and those exhibiting recurrent antisocial behavior than amon ...
as poor scholastic performance, weak connections to school, and low educational aspirations. Such factors are associated with de ...
as 3 years, the focus of this entry is on preteens and adolescents. Extending Psychopathy From Adults to Youths Several factors ...
are underpinned by a fearless temperament and defi- cient processing of emotionally distressing stimuli, which causes insensitiv ...
(interclass correlation [ICC] =.80), suggesting that parent ratings change little from late childhood to early adolescence. The ...
consistently relied on psychological findings, those findings are relevant to the legal debate. Supreme Court Rulings In 1988, t ...
tested in laboratory settings (e.g., participants imagine how they would react to hypothetical situations). However, critics arg ...
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445 LEGALAUTHORITARIANISM In its broadest sense, legal authoritarianism refers to the constellation of beliefs held about the le ...
446 ———Legal Authoritarianism consequences about how one views a criminal trial. According to Packer, individuals who hold stron ...
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